[Aztlan] mayan/hammock question

[Hube Smith]

On the other hand, there are no such things as "hammock holders" in any Maya 
house or "na," the thatched

house of the rural folks. Hammocks are slung from beams because the 
wattle-and-daub walls won't hold hammock

hooks--as you will certainly see mounted on the walls of city-dwellers whose 
homes are made of concrete block,

by and large.





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Miguel Covarrubias" <migcov at gmail.com>
To: <MBuffardi at marthastewart.com>
Cc: <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] mayan/hammock question


> Certainly hammocks are not a Maya invention. There's no evidence of 
> hammock
> hangers in Maya architecture as there are curtain holders and internal
> benchs, among other items, into Mayan houses.
> It seems hammocks arrived to Yucatan through the Caribbean during Colonial
> times.
>
>
> 2007/5/1, MBuffardi at marthastewart.com <MBuffardi at marthastewart.com>:
>>
>>
>> Some of my preliminary research on hammocks has pointed me in the
>> direction
>> of the ancient Mayans. I was wondering if anyone knew anything about  the
>> history of the hammock, and the validity of the belief that it originated
>> with the Mayan Indians.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
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